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Ashly Mae used to scare her daughter while watching Utah Jazz games. “When I watch a Jazz game alone, I’m a completely different person,” Ashly says. “I’m a lunatic. I’m screaming, I’m yelling, my neighbors hate me, my daughter in her room is like ‘Mom! I can’t do homework on Jazz game nights!’” The good news: …

In a slowly announced trade Friday, the Jazz revealed part of their blueprint by taking on the contracts of Richard Jefferson, Andris Biedrins, Brandon Rush from the Golden State Warriors. The move frees up cap space for the Warriors to pursue Andre Iguodala. The Jazz also received Golden State’s 2014 and 2017 first round picks, …

In today’s basketball analytics paradigm, all of the talk is on efficiency, and for good reason: efficiency is highly correlated with winning. Per possession statistics like Offensive and Defensive Rating, and Synergy’s PPP rule the roost, and when they don’t, per shot statistics like eFG% or TS% step forward. Again, this makes sense: being efficient …

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Andy Larsen

Andy Larsen is the Utah Jazz beat writer for KSL.com, the Managing Editor of Salt City Hoops, the ESPN TrueHoop blog for the Utah Jazz, and a radio show host on ESPN700. A math major from Westminster College, Andy uses statistical analysis in his breakdowns of the Jazz and the NBA.